First Aid in the Outdoors

This training scenario uses fun to embed the learning

CTC's first aid in the outdoors courses provide you with the adaptions, skills and experience to manage injury situations and especially give you confidence where ambulance and possibly phone access is not immediate.

Overview

Availability:

Public

Private

Duration:
8 hours (1 day course) or 16 hours (2 day course)

Terrain:
First aid courses are provided in a mix of terrain to suit the venue and the group, mostly in the venue grounds, but may include some road and trail environments.

Assessment:
Combined training and assessment

Key content

First aid, especially when operating in the outdoors is a crucial skill to hold and is often mandatory.

CTC's first aid courses include:

Outdoor First Aid. This 2-day (16 hour) course, which is accepted for most outdoor environments, specifically covers the first aid requirements where you are away from immediate (road based) ambulance access. Suited to those holding CTC's Leader, Instructor and TrainerAwards. This course is also appropriate and relevant to most other outdoor activity qualifications, such as BCU, MLTB, and RYA.

Bike First Aid. This 1-day course covers typical incidents and injuries sustained by cyclists and mountain bikers, and provides scenarios to help you manage emergencies. It is ideally suited to general riders and club members, as well as those working in ambulance and phone landline accessible environments, such as holders of Ride Supporter, Ride Manager, Club Ride Leader and MTB Skills Instructor Urban.

Each First Aid in the Outdoors course includes:

Safe best practice

A systematic approach to incident management in the outdoors

Unconsciousness, causes and treatment

External bleeding, internal bleeding and shock

Resuscitation procedures including choking

Awareness of current regulations

Injury management outdoors

Illness recognition and management

Managing thermal (heat, cold) problems

Incident management scenarios

The full course package is based on:

Interactive hands-on practical training indoors and outside

Typically 70% practical with 30% theory session ratio

One CPR training manikin per 2 participants

Use of recommended first aid kit

Easy to follow individual course booklet

An accredited, recognised certificate valid for 3 years

What next?

This course leads directly to further first aid courses including the Expedition First Aid and the Overseas Medical Intervention courses.

Booking

Course outcomes

CTC's first aid in the outdoors courses provide you with the adaptions, skills and experience to manage injury situations and especially give you confidence. The two-day course also covers longer term immediate care where road-going ambulance and possibly phone access is not immediate.

CTC, working closely with the UK wide first aid providers including ITC First Aid, REC and Mountain Medicine, have generated cycle-specific elements and scenarios for these courses, ensuring that whether you are out on your own or with a group, on the road or trail, and out in the woods or wilds, you will know what to do when things don't go quite as planned...

This course is valid for a period of three years, after which revalidation is required.

What you need

There is no prior experience required before attending this course. The qualification is valid for three years, after which re-validation is required.